| Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 Seiten
...long result of love, and boast, " Behold the man that loved and lost, But all he was is overworn." v. I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the...Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. xxvn. I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1884 - 412 Seiten
...the darkcn'd eyes; With morning wakes the will, and cries, "Thou shall not be the fool of loss." V. 1 SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the grief...For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal tiic Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies: The sad mechanic... | |
| 1884 - 868 Seiten
...round and round, using every sharp point as a facet to reflect some ray of light ; he says indeed, "I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel." And he speaks, in some of those fine wordpaintings in rich frames, of "darkening tho sanctity of his... | |
| Samuel Andrews (M.A.) - 1884 - 312 Seiten
...to be utterly unable to understand this. We next see the Delicacy of true sorrow, when he says : ' I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel.' Words do it wrong: they only 'half reveal' while they 'half conceal' it. Shakespeare has a similar... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - 546 Seiten
...below the darkeu'd eyes; With morning wakes the will, and cries, " Thou shalt not be the fool of loss." I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the...language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcoties, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the... | |
| Thomas Young Crowell - 1885 - 702 Seiten
...fail in truth And in thy wisdom make me wise. / SOME TIMES HOLD IT HALt A SIN. [/« Memorial*, V.] I SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the...for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured langnage lies; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcoties, numbing pain. In words, like weeds,... | |
| Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 648 Seiten
...man. he knows not why. He thinks he was not formed to die, And Thou hast made him ; Thou art just !" "I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the...reveal And half conceal the Soul within." "... but what am I ? An infant crying in the night ; An infant crying for the light ; And with no language but... | |
| Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 614 Seiten
...man, he knows not why. He thinks he was not formed to die, And Thou hast made him ; Thou art just !" " I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the...reveal And half conceal the Soul within." "... but what am I ? An infant crying in the night ; An infant crying for the light ; And with no language but... | |
| Moffatt and Paige - 1885 - 240 Seiten
...exclamation of the heart's 2 ecstatic delight ; and while it ministers to gladness it is balm to sorrow : ' ' For the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies." We cannot easily imagine a grief which should be quite insensible to its influence. Only a poet could... | |
| Frederic Harrison - 1886 - 476 Seiten
...our habit in an age of utterly chaotic education. We read, as the bereaved poet made rhymes — ' ' For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured...mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain." We, to whom steam and electricity have given almost everything excepting bigger brains and hearts,... | |
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